The founder of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, regrets having allowed the rise of the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz within the party, and assures that the second vice president of the Government “has worked to destroy Podemos, allying with gangsters and its most obvious enemies.” .
“I trusted her, and I trusted her to open a democratic process that respected the democratic weight of Podemos,” highlights the former leader of the purple party in an interview for Diari de Barcelona, ??after stating that he regrets “having given it so much power.” .
He also accuses Sumar of being “pessimistic” in “relations with power,” and believes that “they assume that it is very difficult to build an ideological space different from what classical social democracy represents,” unlike, according to Iglesias, what aims to do Podemos.
The founder of the purple formation insists on the possibility of Podemos running alone in the 2024 European elections, since, in his opinion, the party “has to return to being an autonomous electoral option” and “it has to be done visible”. Likewise, Iglesias rules out participating in the European elections with the formation he founded, nor returning to the institutional sphere of politics. Instead, he defends his work from the medium he directs, Canal Red, to “constitute his own media power.”
When asked about the first years of Podemos’ life, Iglesias emphasizes that “if I could go back, I would not repeat it.” “Becoming a permanent object of media aggression personally is very hard,” underlines the former vice president of the government, after stating that “he would not have stood in the European elections” in 2014 after learning of the pressures his family suffered and the loss of privacy that he suffered. It marked his leap into politics.
